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List of Infallibly Interpreted Verses

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The phrase papal infallibility occurs in Scripture as often as the term Trinity: not once. However, it does not follow from this that biblical proof is lacking. Before delving into papal infallibility in particular, we know that Scripture speaks of the Church as the "pillar and bulwark of the truth" (1 Tim. 3:15). This term "bulwark" isn’t something that we use in everyday conversation, so take a look at what the original Greek means. The word originally written by Paul was hedraioma (o has a line over it), which literally means a foundation. Kittle’s Theological Dictionary of the New Testament explains in its article on edraioma, "A Church is established which protects and defends the truth against the confusion of myths. It gives the faith and thinking of individuals a sure ground in confession. No longer God alone, but also the Church of God, now guarantees the permanence of the aletheia [truth] (first e has a line over it). The steadfastness of faith has now become loyalty to the Church and the confession" (vol. II, p. 364). For a Protestant work, this sounds remarkably Catholic.

The early Christians knew that they could turn to the apostolic teaching of the Church as a norm for the truth (2 Tim. 1:13). For whoever heard the Church heard Christ (Luke 10:16), and Christ cannot teach error. So the question should not be "where is infallibility in the Bible," but where in the Bible is the idea that Christ’s Church would teach error? It seems to be taken for granted that by promising to guide the Church into all truth by the power of the Holy Spirit (John 16:13), Christ would guard his flock from erroneous teaching.

How to Argue for Papal Infallibility (This Rock: February 2002)
 
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The only way that God would promise this union with heaven is if he intended to protect his Church from falsehood. After all, God is truth and he would not lead his flock into error, much less allow heaven to be bound by it. With this in mind, Christ prayed that Peter’s faith would not fail (Luke 22:32), built the Church upon him (Matt 16), and ordered him to tend and feed Christ’s sheep (John 21:15-17).
 
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Nuts! someone beat me to the punch!
 
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